Bro you don’t need translations we know Japanese . Cringe

Deplatforming is effective. It’d be even more effective if people got off platforms that did platform them. Twitter is far too popular. Facebook and Instagram as well

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There was a couple of methods I used to find people to talk to. Some with little chance of long term friends but great practice. Traveling through hostels and night life in foreign countries is a good no risk way to practice. Just talk to people in the lobby and bars and if it fails who cares you’re 5k miles from home. It’s good practice.

From there, taking a language class at a local community college for a language you like. This is more if you’re under 30 for effectiveness. A more out there language, like korean, polish, Japanese is probably more effective. But honestly any works. Great way to make friends, if you keep at it and get involved or make a club.

Another way is participating in local activism. Everyone is there for the same purpose, so it’s easier to talk to people. Plus, they’re used to outreach so they’ll reach to you first if you just show up and stand around, which is great because it means you don’t need initiative. From there you can just keep showing up, and it at least supplies a consistent social interaction every so often.

Another way is be an alcoholic and go to bars and chat up as many people as possible with liquid courage.

There’s a few services like timeleft, 222.place that are effective in major cities. Great way to meet people, none of the bullshit dating apps have.

Being in a union is also a great way to build comradery and meet like minded people who are easier to talk to. Again, these people do outreach, so they’ll hit you up first. And also buy you beers.

Can you tell that I love politics? Lol.

Basically, just go to social events. Not the community gatherings that pretend to be social but in reality are everyone coming in their own groups. I’m part of an activism group that runs bike ride socials it’s a great time.

Be active. Physically. Looking decent helps get to know people, as much as I hate it.

Key to all of this, is after x amount of times meeting, you need to try inviting them to things outside of the main activity. Start easy, sports if they like sports, maybe a local festival related to the subject. That’s how you lock them in.

Lonely is exactly the shit I’m saying is fixable. Depressed, well, a large part of depression is about preventing you from putting forth effort. So like, yeah, it can fuck that up. But you gotta be optimistic. Like if my anxiety ridden ass can do it most people should be able to

Then make one yourself. Organize, post it around online, and more likely than not a few people will show up

Basically anyone can make friends if they put in the effort. It’s one of my firm beliefs

Finally, vision having exclusionism

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Jury trials force more careful deliberation of facts, and reduce risks of intimidation, misleading, and bribery from the pool. By no means perfect, they reduce impulsivity and lack of evidence, the 2 primary issues of mob justice.

When it comes to interpersonal disputes, community members stepping up could be as effective as cops.

…mob justice is rarely ever a good idea, and best avoided if at all possible, excluding cases where the legal systems have blatantly failed. I feel that may fly too close to that, depending on how it’s organized.

The people bring the violence to organized crime as much as the organized crime brings the violence to people.

That’s a complete fantasy. People don’t rape, don’t assault, others because of only money. Yes, capitalism increases those harms. But drug addicts will exist in any society, for a variety of reasons, as long as drugs are possible to access (so off the bat there is questionable), and you can do harm reduction for that. But beyond that, there people out there who get a power high off of abusive others. There will still be that crime.

I’m well aware of everything you said, I just have a bit less faith in the default good of humanity. There will still be abusers and rapists.

I have to admit we need arms and to train and organise ourselves well. Not voting has never helped do anything (unless if a minimum turnout is necessary to validify the results), other than democracies strongly disapproving of results.

Of course. To defeat fascism, at a minimum we need to be doing protests that have a real threat behind them. A lot harder to break up a crowd when we have assault rifles.

You need some law enforcement. There will always be violent criminals, no matter what form of society you want. They’re poisonous and awful, and the system should be burned to the ground---- but we will need a replacement.

Getting dms is fun. They like not to respond when I respond back which is less fun

More like people realized it’s easier to stab your boss and win if you got a group backing you

I do mind if they’re spent subsidizing Walmart’s shit paay

Even absurdism is still emo.

As someone with severe adhd, I will absolutely maintain that it’s a mindset issue. I don’t think it makes it harder to derive pleasure from a job well done. I think it disrupts the ability to connect that feedback to doing that task in a way that changes the amount of effort to do that task again in the future

Fuck that sands like a great mid step on the way to full Communism. Even just the part of forcing there to always be an accountable person would be amazing and fix so many issues.

I’ve always found the other half of American exceptiolism to be equally stupid;the opinion that America is the worst country ever, ir, exceptionally evil or bad among history.